The final chapter shows how Schoenberg’s presence in America produced many responses to his music after 1945, thanks to the groundwork he had laid since the early 1930s. Other factors included ...
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The final chapter shows how Schoenberg’s presence in America produced many responses to his music after 1945, thanks to the groundwork he had laid since the early 1930s. Other factors included favorable circumstances, such as the Cold War climate that favored abstract and progressive art, and the growth of performance venues and college education. Although Schoenberg’s work has remained controversial and has been declared dead by critics, it never failed to find new champions among American performers, composers, and music scholars throughout the twentieth century. Promoted by Milton Babbitt, among other prominent composers, Schoenberg’s dodecaphony had a particularly strong impact on composers and scholars in academia in the 1950s and 1960s, and also on composers of experimental, film, and jazz music. His music and ideas are still very much alive.Less

The American Reception of Schoenberg’s Music after 1945

Sabine Feisst

Published in print: 2011-03-02

The final chapter shows how Schoenberg’s presence in America produced many responses to his music after 1945, thanks to the groundwork he had laid since the early 1930s. Other factors included favorable circumstances, such as the Cold War climate that favored abstract and progressive art, and the growth of performance venues and college education. Although Schoenberg’s work has remained controversial and has been declared dead by critics, it never failed to find new champions among American performers, composers, and music scholars throughout the twentieth century. Promoted by Milton Babbitt, among other prominent composers, Schoenberg’s dodecaphony had a particularly strong impact on composers and scholars in academia in the 1950s and 1960s, and also on composers of experimental, film, and jazz music. His music and ideas are still very much alive.

The ascent of globalisation captures the sweeping drama of postwar globalisation through intimate portraits of twenty of its key architects. These profiles provide insights into what inspired these ...
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The ascent of globalisation captures the sweeping drama of postwar globalisation through intimate portraits of twenty of its key architects. These profiles provide insights into what inspired these pioneers of globalisation — the beliefs they each imbibed in their youth, the formative experiences that shaped their ideas and their contributions to the global architecture. Engaging anecdotes and telling personal details, many of which have never been told, enliven each of the stories, as well as the behind-the-scenes dramas that accompanied the creation of institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, UN and World Trade Organization and the informal governance structures that are part of the postwar global architecture. Their legacies are critically examined, both their successes and their disappointments: a global financial system that is fragile and unstable; an international trading system that is unfair; the unintended consequences of largely unregulated transnational capital; and dysfunction that plagues institutions like the European Union and the United Nations. The book ends by examining what implications the flawed architecture may have for the future of globalisation.Less

The Ascent of Globalisation

Harry Blustein

Published in print: 2015-12-01

The ascent of globalisation captures the sweeping drama of postwar globalisation through intimate portraits of twenty of its key architects. These profiles provide insights into what inspired these pioneers of globalisation — the beliefs they each imbibed in their youth, the formative experiences that shaped their ideas and their contributions to the global architecture. Engaging anecdotes and telling personal details, many of which have never been told, enliven each of the stories, as well as the behind-the-scenes dramas that accompanied the creation of institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, UN and World Trade Organization and the informal governance structures that are part of the postwar global architecture. Their legacies are critically examined, both their successes and their disappointments: a global financial system that is fragile and unstable; an international trading system that is unfair; the unintended consequences of largely unregulated transnational capital; and dysfunction that plagues institutions like the European Union and the United Nations. The book ends by examining what implications the flawed architecture may have for the future of globalisation.

For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the “other.” While in the past ...
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For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the “other.” While in the past antisemites saw Jews as all too modern “rootless cosmopolitans” today's European antisemitism construes them as obsolete precisely because they are attached to their roots, their land, their community, their origin. The Jews are now perceived as a reactionary force that hinders the progress of humankind toward multiculturalism, understood as the peaceful, infinitely enriching coexistence of ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures within the same territory. The antisemite of yore viewed the Jews as an inferior race; today he views them as racist. By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how “French thought” is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism. The author probes the legacy of Heidegger in France and exposes the shortcomings of radical social critique and postcolonial theory confronted to the challenge of Islamic terrorism and Jew hatred. This book is the first effort to analyze French responses that have regrettably played their part in generating the new antisemitism.Less

Is Theory Good for the Jews? : French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism

Bruno Chaouat

Published in print: 2017-01-01

For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the “other.” While in the past antisemites saw Jews as all too modern “rootless cosmopolitans” today's European antisemitism construes them as obsolete precisely because they are attached to their roots, their land, their community, their origin. The Jews are now perceived as a reactionary force that hinders the progress of humankind toward multiculturalism, understood as the peaceful, infinitely enriching coexistence of ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures within the same territory. The antisemite of yore viewed the Jews as an inferior race; today he views them as racist. By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how “French thought” is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism. The author probes the legacy of Heidegger in France and exposes the shortcomings of radical social critique and postcolonial theory confronted to the challenge of Islamic terrorism and Jew hatred. This book is the first effort to analyze French responses that have regrettably played their part in generating the new antisemitism.

The paradigm of the “liberal consensus” has critically shaped scholarly understanding of the United States during the two decades after World War II. Both influential and controversial, it remains ...
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The paradigm of the “liberal consensus” has critically shaped scholarly understanding of the United States during the two decades after World War II. Both influential and controversial, it remains the subject of lively debate among scholars seeking to explain the political and social transformations of that era. Some historians contest the existence of consensus in post-1945 America, while others employ the term—sometimes unreflectively—as a shorthand descriptor of the contemporary mood. In contrast, this book argues that a revised, nuanced, and dynamic definition of consensus liberalism provides a compelling way to appreciate how the vitality of the postwar economy and the external challenges of the early Cold War shaped the United States in profound ways, both politically and socially.Less

The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered : American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era

Published in print: 2017-04-11

The paradigm of the “liberal consensus” has critically shaped scholarly understanding of the United States during the two decades after World War II. Both influential and controversial, it remains the subject of lively debate among scholars seeking to explain the political and social transformations of that era. Some historians contest the existence of consensus in post-1945 America, while others employ the term—sometimes unreflectively—as a shorthand descriptor of the contemporary mood. In contrast, this book argues that a revised, nuanced, and dynamic definition of consensus liberalism provides a compelling way to appreciate how the vitality of the postwar economy and the external challenges of the early Cold War shaped the United States in profound ways, both politically and socially.

Bringing three key issues - Ozu, everyday life and the modern Japanese history - into a unified discussion, The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro re-examines the renowned film director Ozu Yasujiro and his ...
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Bringing three key issues - Ozu, everyday life and the modern Japanese history - into a unified discussion, The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro re-examines the renowned film director Ozu Yasujiro and his films from a socio-historical point of view to present a more contextualised contour of his cinema. The new approach will revise the previous tendency in Ozu studies that have emphasised Ozu's formal style, and articulate his consistent effort to explore the everyday life of ordinary Japanese people. The main subjects of this book include major issues of the history of Japan and Japanese cinema from prewar modernism and coming of sound cinema through struggles at war and during the US occupation, and the reconstruction and change of the postwar. It also emphasizes Ozu’s status and role as a studio director in Japanese film industry, with discussions of his generic contributions, such as shōshimin films, family melodrama, and bourgeois drama, which could be established under the constant conflict and negotiation with the studio Shochiku’s everyday realism. Upon this socio-historical context, the book attempts detailed reanalysis of Ozu's films throughout his career, centering on the multilateral aspect of the everyday in terms of space and time, produced through constant negotiation among different genders, classes and generations.Less

The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro : Histories of the Everyday

Woojeong Joo

Published in print: 2017-06-01

Bringing three key issues - Ozu, everyday life and the modern Japanese history - into a unified discussion, The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro re-examines the renowned film director Ozu Yasujiro and his films from a socio-historical point of view to present a more contextualised contour of his cinema. The new approach will revise the previous tendency in Ozu studies that have emphasised Ozu's formal style, and articulate his consistent effort to explore the everyday life of ordinary Japanese people. The main subjects of this book include major issues of the history of Japan and Japanese cinema from prewar modernism and coming of sound cinema through struggles at war and during the US occupation, and the reconstruction and change of the postwar. It also emphasizes Ozu’s status and role as a studio director in Japanese film industry, with discussions of his generic contributions, such as shōshimin films, family melodrama, and bourgeois drama, which could be established under the constant conflict and negotiation with the studio Shochiku’s everyday realism. Upon this socio-historical context, the book attempts detailed reanalysis of Ozu's films throughout his career, centering on the multilateral aspect of the everyday in terms of space and time, produced through constant negotiation among different genders, classes and generations.

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories ...
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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.Less

Venus Bivar

Published in print: 2018-03-12

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.

After World War II, America’s religious denominations spread into the rapidly developing suburbs, expanding old congregations and starting new ones, in the process spending billions of dollars on ...
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After World War II, America’s religious denominations spread into the rapidly developing suburbs, expanding old congregations and starting new ones, in the process spending billions of dollars on church architecture. In step with their evolving ideas of worship and community, many congregations sought revolutionary, modern buildings—“Churches for Today” as they were called by a regular Sunday feature in the Chicago Tribune. It is undeniable that the “modern” intentions of church architects and theologians could result in plain or unusual buildings that appeared to observers as “gas station” or “grocery store” churches. Even today, these buildings are apt to elicit a laugh, or at least a “What were they thinking?” These ubiquitous church buildings, prominent in every suburban community, are a revealing repository of the history of American religion in the postwar years—its ecumenism, its optimism, and its liturgical innovation as well as its fears about the increasing “irrelevance” of institutional religion at a time when cultural and social change and dramatic demographic shifts rapidly transformed society. Postwar churches and the stories surrounding their construction and use reveal earnest, well-intentioned religious communities caught between the desire to serve God in the world and the demands of a suburban milieu in which programming activities for middle class families required the lion’s share of both their material and spiritual energies. Both buildings and people were shaped by the tensions between secular and religious life, economy and aspiration, and individuality and conformity that marked life in the postwar suburbs.Less

The Suburban Church : Modernism and Community in Postwar America

Gretchen Buggeln

Published in print: 2015-12-15

After World War II, America’s religious denominations spread into the rapidly developing suburbs, expanding old congregations and starting new ones, in the process spending billions of dollars on church architecture. In step with their evolving ideas of worship and community, many congregations sought revolutionary, modern buildings—“Churches for Today” as they were called by a regular Sunday feature in the Chicago Tribune. It is undeniable that the “modern” intentions of church architects and theologians could result in plain or unusual buildings that appeared to observers as “gas station” or “grocery store” churches. Even today, these buildings are apt to elicit a laugh, or at least a “What were they thinking?” These ubiquitous church buildings, prominent in every suburban community, are a revealing repository of the history of American religion in the postwar years—its ecumenism, its optimism, and its liturgical innovation as well as its fears about the increasing “irrelevance” of institutional religion at a time when cultural and social change and dramatic demographic shifts rapidly transformed society. Postwar churches and the stories surrounding their construction and use reveal earnest, well-intentioned religious communities caught between the desire to serve God in the world and the demands of a suburban milieu in which programming activities for middle class families required the lion’s share of both their material and spiritual energies. Both buildings and people were shaped by the tensions between secular and religious life, economy and aspiration, and individuality and conformity that marked life in the postwar suburbs.

Chapter One serves as a source of information about the nature of Soviet domestic tourism, and as a counterpoint to the turn to the international under Khrushchev. In late Stalinism, Soviet citizens ...
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Chapter One serves as a source of information about the nature of Soviet domestic tourism, and as a counterpoint to the turn to the international under Khrushchev. In late Stalinism, Soviet citizens were encouraged to turn inwards, to avoid dangerous “border zones” both literal and imaginative. Moscow was Itinerary Number 1, a special focus of Soviet patriotic education for the postwar tourist. Tourism was also means of integrating far-flung and/or new territories through visits to historical sites and “exotic” spaces newly inscribed with Soviet significance. Finally, Soviet tourism was a means of reassuring a weary, war-torn, population. Descriptions (even if not realized) of beautiful beaches and luxurious resorts suggested to loyal citizens that their future would be comfortable and bright. In every case, travelers were reminded that it was only within the borders of the socialist homeland that the Soviet citizen could be confident of a warm welcome.Less

“There’s No Place like Home:” Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism

Anne E. Gorsuch

Published in print: 2011-08-01

Chapter One serves as a source of information about the nature of Soviet domestic tourism, and as a counterpoint to the turn to the international under Khrushchev. In late Stalinism, Soviet citizens were encouraged to turn inwards, to avoid dangerous “border zones” both literal and imaginative. Moscow was Itinerary Number 1, a special focus of Soviet patriotic education for the postwar tourist. Tourism was also means of integrating far-flung and/or new territories through visits to historical sites and “exotic” spaces newly inscribed with Soviet significance. Finally, Soviet tourism was a means of reassuring a weary, war-torn, population. Descriptions (even if not realized) of beautiful beaches and luxurious resorts suggested to loyal citizens that their future would be comfortable and bright. In every case, travelers were reminded that it was only within the borders of the socialist homeland that the Soviet citizen could be confident of a warm welcome.

The Folklore of the Freeway provides an alternative history of highway construction in urban America, emphasizing the cultural politics of fighting freeways in the inner city. Using the methods of ...
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The Folklore of the Freeway provides an alternative history of highway construction in urban America, emphasizing the cultural politics of fighting freeways in the inner city. Using the methods of ethnic studies, cultural studies, and urban history, this book offers a revisionist history of the freeway revolt in urban America, that moment when neighborhood activists organized against state highway builders to defend the integrity of their communities. While historical accounts of the freeway revolt emphasize successful forms of grassroots mobilization within predominantly white, middle-class urban communities, the urban neighborhoods that bore the brunt of urban highway construction, lacking political and economic power, devised a creative set of cultural strategies to express opposition towards the routing of freeways through their neighborhoods. These expressions, taking shape through visual and literary cultural forms, iterates the destructive consequences of the Interstate highway program, helping to preserve communal integrity and identity and inventing new relationships between people and the urban built environment. This book thus considers the cultural dimensions of this freeway revolt, emphasizing the role of culture and identity in mediating the relationship between inner city communities and the disruptive process of infrastructural development. Losers, perhaps, in the fight against the freeway, these racially and ethnically diverse communities of working class men and women nonetheless innovated a genre of cultural expression that shapes our understanding of the urban landscape and influences the shifting priorities of urban policy since the 1960s.Less

The Folklore of the Freeway : Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

Eric Avila

Published in print: 2014-05-01

The Folklore of the Freeway provides an alternative history of highway construction in urban America, emphasizing the cultural politics of fighting freeways in the inner city. Using the methods of ethnic studies, cultural studies, and urban history, this book offers a revisionist history of the freeway revolt in urban America, that moment when neighborhood activists organized against state highway builders to defend the integrity of their communities. While historical accounts of the freeway revolt emphasize successful forms of grassroots mobilization within predominantly white, middle-class urban communities, the urban neighborhoods that bore the brunt of urban highway construction, lacking political and economic power, devised a creative set of cultural strategies to express opposition towards the routing of freeways through their neighborhoods. These expressions, taking shape through visual and literary cultural forms, iterates the destructive consequences of the Interstate highway program, helping to preserve communal integrity and identity and inventing new relationships between people and the urban built environment. This book thus considers the cultural dimensions of this freeway revolt, emphasizing the role of culture and identity in mediating the relationship between inner city communities and the disruptive process of infrastructural development. Losers, perhaps, in the fight against the freeway, these racially and ethnically diverse communities of working class men and women nonetheless innovated a genre of cultural expression that shapes our understanding of the urban landscape and influences the shifting priorities of urban policy since the 1960s.

Sin City North examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, ...
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Sin City North examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, brothels, dance halls, and jazz clubs that emerged around the busiest crossing point between the United States and Canada. Prostitution and illegal drug economies gained renewed importance at a time when suburbanization, industrial decline, and racial segregation were re-shaping the region. For many residents, vice industries provided much-needed income in the fledgling labor market. Yet, the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked strong reactions from moral reformers. Framing their efforts within the context of the Cold War, these interest groups worked together across the border in order to eliminate so-called immoral outsiders from their communities. This critical study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved into much more than defining the legal status of particular activities; they were also crucial avenues through which men and women attempted to define productive citizenship and community in the postwar urban borderland.Less

Sin City North : Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland

Holly M. Karibo

Published in print: 2015-10-26

Sin City North examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, brothels, dance halls, and jazz clubs that emerged around the busiest crossing point between the United States and Canada. Prostitution and illegal drug economies gained renewed importance at a time when suburbanization, industrial decline, and racial segregation were re-shaping the region. For many residents, vice industries provided much-needed income in the fledgling labor market. Yet, the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked strong reactions from moral reformers. Framing their efforts within the context of the Cold War, these interest groups worked together across the border in order to eliminate so-called immoral outsiders from their communities. This critical study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved into much more than defining the legal status of particular activities; they were also crucial avenues through which men and women attempted to define productive citizenship and community in the postwar urban borderland.

This chapter outlines the key arguments made in the book, setting them within the context of the historiography on borderlands, vice, moral regulation, and the postwar period. The chapter also ...
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This chapter outlines the key arguments made in the book, setting them within the context of the historiography on borderlands, vice, moral regulation, and the postwar period. The chapter also outlines the methodological approach taken within the book, which includes blending social and cultural history.Less

Introduction

Holly M. Karibo

Published in print: 2015-10-26

This chapter outlines the key arguments made in the book, setting them within the context of the historiography on borderlands, vice, moral regulation, and the postwar period. The chapter also outlines the methodological approach taken within the book, which includes blending social and cultural history.

Confederates resented the Union’s deployment of black soldiers in combat at Petersburg, using their presence to rally additional support for the Confederacy. Kevin M. Levin’s essay touches briefly on ...
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Confederates resented the Union’s deployment of black soldiers in combat at Petersburg, using their presence to rally additional support for the Confederacy. Kevin M. Levin’s essay touches briefly on that phenomenon while probing the larger story of African American troops at the Crater. Debates within the Union high command about how best to use USCT units, conflicting opinions about black comrades among white officers and troops, tactical details regarding fighting at the Crater on July 30, and competing postwar accounts of the battle all fall within Levin’s purview. Perhaps most obviously, this essay underscores the degree to which history and memory can diverge.Less

The Devil Himself Could Not Have Checked Them : Fighting with Black Soldiers at the Crater

Kevin M. Levin

Published in print: 2015-09-25

Confederates resented the Union’s deployment of black soldiers in combat at Petersburg, using their presence to rally additional support for the Confederacy. Kevin M. Levin’s essay touches briefly on that phenomenon while probing the larger story of African American troops at the Crater. Debates within the Union high command about how best to use USCT units, conflicting opinions about black comrades among white officers and troops, tactical details regarding fighting at the Crater on July 30, and competing postwar accounts of the battle all fall within Levin’s purview. Perhaps most obviously, this essay underscores the degree to which history and memory can diverge.

The book conceives the literary and cinematic category of “noir” as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post–World War II America. It analyzes ...
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The book conceives the literary and cinematic category of “noir” as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post–World War II America. It analyzes works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a “noir tradition” that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present. All of noir’s evolutions have taken place as responses to consumer culture; in the postwar era this consumer culture has become conflated with American citizenship, and the noir tradition presents itself as an “authentic” alternative to this republic of consumption. In order to see how noir and its descendants stage the confrontation between consumer culture and authenticity, my analysis is concentrated on how the texts that I write about represent various kinds of American commercial spaces. This analysis has a three-part structure, organized around the three key moments in the development of the noir tradition that I identify: (1) the postwar moment, as represented by classic film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction; (2) the sixties era, during which noir film and fiction are transformed and take the new form of the conspiracy narrative; and (3) the post-eighties period of dominant postmodernism, in which noir themes and aesthetics are revived, with a difference, to facilitate ways of responding to the phenomenon of global capitalism.Less

America Is Elsewhere : The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture

Erik Dussere

Published in print: 2013-09-01

The book conceives the literary and cinematic category of “noir” as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post–World War II America. It analyzes works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a “noir tradition” that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present. All of noir’s evolutions have taken place as responses to consumer culture; in the postwar era this consumer culture has become conflated with American citizenship, and the noir tradition presents itself as an “authentic” alternative to this republic of consumption. In order to see how noir and its descendants stage the confrontation between consumer culture and authenticity, my analysis is concentrated on how the texts that I write about represent various kinds of American commercial spaces. This analysis has a three-part structure, organized around the three key moments in the development of the noir tradition that I identify: (1) the postwar moment, as represented by classic film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction; (2) the sixties era, during which noir film and fiction are transformed and take the new form of the conspiracy narrative; and (3) the post-eighties period of dominant postmodernism, in which noir themes and aesthetics are revived, with a difference, to facilitate ways of responding to the phenomenon of global capitalism.

This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the development of the deep inequalities that have existed (and continue to exist) in the U.S. housing market by looking closely at some ...
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This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the development of the deep inequalities that have existed (and continue to exist) in the U.S. housing market by looking closely at some material dimensions of everyday life that are so ordinary, so common, and so ubiquitous that they’ve largely escaped analysis. If we already know a great deal about the ways in which institutional structures connected to the economics of housing operated, we have known far less about the dispersed and complex sets of practices that created, reinforced, and established the forms of cultural knowledge that ultimately supported a housing market designed primarily for whites to the exclusion of others. This book studies the politics of representation and the formation of cultural knowledge about ordinary houses and single-family domesticity in the postwar period. Houses, and the media representations of housing in the postwar period helped to create a specific dimension of racialized knowledge, one that connected white identities to rights related to property ownership and to a specifically classed lifestyle. National publications, television programs, professional literature, domestic artifacts, and even the design of houses and their interiors all contributed to a rhetorical field that shaped the organization of knowledge about the social construction of race and the spatial dimensions of inequality in the postwar era, as it continues to do today.Less

Little White Houses : How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America

Dianne Harris

Published in print: 2013-01-01

This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the development of the deep inequalities that have existed (and continue to exist) in the U.S. housing market by looking closely at some material dimensions of everyday life that are so ordinary, so common, and so ubiquitous that they’ve largely escaped analysis. If we already know a great deal about the ways in which institutional structures connected to the economics of housing operated, we have known far less about the dispersed and complex sets of practices that created, reinforced, and established the forms of cultural knowledge that ultimately supported a housing market designed primarily for whites to the exclusion of others. This book studies the politics of representation and the formation of cultural knowledge about ordinary houses and single-family domesticity in the postwar period. Houses, and the media representations of housing in the postwar period helped to create a specific dimension of racialized knowledge, one that connected white identities to rights related to property ownership and to a specifically classed lifestyle. National publications, television programs, professional literature, domestic artifacts, and even the design of houses and their interiors all contributed to a rhetorical field that shaped the organization of knowledge about the social construction of race and the spatial dimensions of inequality in the postwar era, as it continues to do today.

A comprehensive study of one especially prominent postwar church type, the A-frame. Chronicles the A-frame’s development, shows its variety of expression, particularly in the work of Stade, Sovik, ...
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A comprehensive study of one especially prominent postwar church type, the A-frame. Chronicles the A-frame’s development, shows its variety of expression, particularly in the work of Stade, Sovik, and Dart, and suggests the reasons for its wide-ranging popularity and eventual decline.Less

The A-Frame Church : Symbol of an Era

Gretchen Buggeln

Published in print: 2015-12-15

A comprehensive study of one especially prominent postwar church type, the A-frame. Chronicles the A-frame’s development, shows its variety of expression, particularly in the work of Stade, Sovik, and Dart, and suggests the reasons for its wide-ranging popularity and eventual decline.

The last chapter begins by briefly discussing postwar developments in dramatic, documentary and animated film. Discourses of nationalist and imperialist identity might no longer be overtly manifested ...
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The last chapter begins by briefly discussing postwar developments in dramatic, documentary and animated film. Discourses of nationalist and imperialist identity might no longer be overtly manifested in these genres and media in the early postwar era, but they did not dissolve with the termination of war in 1945. One of the best examples of continuity is the image of the emperor, which survived—and indeed continues today—to serve as one of the most important constituents of nation and nationalism in postwar Japanese media and visual culture. To reinforce this point, the chapter turns to the well-known double portrait of Emperor Hirohito and General Douglas MacArthur, which should be seen as a continuation of the wartime imperial portrait photograph. (120 words)Less

Epilogue

Hikari Hori

Published in print: 2018-01-15

The last chapter begins by briefly discussing postwar developments in dramatic, documentary and animated film. Discourses of nationalist and imperialist identity might no longer be overtly manifested in these genres and media in the early postwar era, but they did not dissolve with the termination of war in 1945. One of the best examples of continuity is the image of the emperor, which survived—and indeed continues today—to serve as one of the most important constituents of nation and nationalism in postwar Japanese media and visual culture. To reinforce this point, the chapter turns to the well-known double portrait of Emperor Hirohito and General Douglas MacArthur, which should be seen as a continuation of the wartime imperial portrait photograph. (120 words)

A detailed and in-depth analysis of the role played by text and images in selected postwar shelter, trade, and popular magazines, and their contribution to the production of a cultural iconography ...
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A detailed and in-depth analysis of the role played by text and images in selected postwar shelter, trade, and popular magazines, and their contribution to the production of a cultural iconography that associated ordinary houses with white, middle-class occupants.Less

Magazine Lessons : Publishing the Lexicon of White Domesticity

Dianne Harris

Published in print: 2013-01-01

A detailed and in-depth analysis of the role played by text and images in selected postwar shelter, trade, and popular magazines, and their contribution to the production of a cultural iconography that associated ordinary houses with white, middle-class occupants.

Analyzing specific representational techniques, this chapter examines the architectural renderings of postwar houses published in popular and shelter magazines to understand the ways they formulated ...
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Analyzing specific representational techniques, this chapter examines the architectural renderings of postwar houses published in popular and shelter magazines to understand the ways they formulated a specific iconography of white domesticity.Less

Rendered Whiteness : Architectural Drawings and Graphics

Dianne Harris

Published in print: 2013-01-01

Analyzing specific representational techniques, this chapter examines the architectural renderings of postwar houses published in popular and shelter magazines to understand the ways they formulated a specific iconography of white domesticity.